[Cody Carey]

No to jump on the "FIRST SUCKS" bandwagon, but what have they been thinking? Rule after rule this year (and a little last year) seems to have been made solely for the purpose of making a rule. This is not to protect teams, as I have heard of no occasions when people were hurt due to an "unsanctioned personal machine-shop". This, and many others are only there as a restriction. It is the same thing with the spirit shown at the Championship Q&A session last year... FIRST seems to think that if they said something, no matter if problems are pointed out... that is the way it goes. Not because it is right, but because they said it. Teams don't even seem to be considered any more when it comes to the hard decisions.


Overall, I don't know what I think about FIRST anymore... I mean, I LOVE it, because without it, I wouldn't be who I am; I just think that maybe it is going the same directions as most thins, and becoming less and less concerned with its members, and more concerned with being a Corporation-mimicking non-profit organization.


WE have been in countless situations when the kindness of another team letting us use their machines has saved out robot. It will be a shame when that can't happen.